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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Riya is ready to ID the people in your pictures

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Ojos has just released the alpha version of Riya, a photo-identification system (at the moment, invitation only).

It's basically a face recognition system: you show it a picture of Fred, or whoever, and it tries to find all the other pictures of Fred in your photo album, or another album, or on the Web. Easy to say; damn hard to do.

(Riya is named after the daughter of a member of staff. She was born with a heart defect and needed an operation.)

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